by gregoryheller | Jun 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
Pack your bags, its summer time, and that means time for Drupal Camp! CivicActions will be participating in and sponsoring two upcoming Drupal Camps, one in Seattle (the second annual DrupalCampSeattle on June 29th, and the other in New York City on July 14th.) I’ll be one of the “camp counselors” in Seattle, and Arthur and Ethan will be heading down to New York to talk about MediaMover and some other cool modules we’ve been working on recently. If your in striking distance of Seattle, come to the one day camp where we will have concurrent tracks catering to developers and power users. In the power user track we’ll actually be doing a barn raising all day, using an actual project as an example to learn about Drupal Module selection and configuration. The site, “Celia the Dark” is a user generated content site for young poets where they can find community, encouragement and feedback on their...
by gregoryheller | Jun 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
Webware just announced that Drupal is the winner of a Webware 100 award for in the publishing category: Drupal is a powerful publishing and content management system. Users can add all sorts of content to Web pages through a system of modules. The software itself is free and open-source; users need simply pick out which site elements they want, and then put them...
by gregoryheller | Jun 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
Public Radio is reporting this morning that border agents on the US Canadian border are looking way back into people’s past to find ways to deny them entry to one country or the other. Border agents are even using Google. One case mentioned in the story was of a Canadian Psychoanalyst who was denied entry after agents found an article he wrote in 2001 about his use of LSD in the 1960s. I imagine the day is not far off when border agents use facebook or...
by gregoryheller | Jun 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
Paul Krugman has had two great columns recently in the NYT. Unfortunately they are buried behind a pay-wall. In “Authentic? Nevermind” Krugman addresses the recent criticism of candidate John Edwards who has been living comfortably yet talks about income inequality, increasing taxes on the wealthy and helping the poor, woorking and middle classes at the expense of the rich and elite. As Krugman points out, there is nothing inauthentic about this, however that is how the media is portraying it. It would be inauthentic of Edwards, mothballed the houses and moved into a travel trailer to try to score points with the populace. He is, rather, following in the tradition of F.D.R. who lived quite well but also accomplished great things for poor Americans. Inauthentic is Fred Thompson who traded in his nice black town car for a red pickup while running for Senate, or Rudy Giulianni who claims to be a defender of the nation and tough on terror based on his “record” which is spotty at best. Giulianni has come under heavy criticism from first responders for his performance on September 11th and there after. Krugman also points out that Giulianni Partners has had some seriously questionable relationships (Berni Kerrik convicted of corruption, and FBI executive who stole artifacts from the WTC Site and a former RC priest who was accused of covering up sexual abuse in the church. Not to mention GWB and his cowboy/flyboy act. Krugman says we should stop talking about authenticity and start talking about candidates on the issues, something that is objective rather than subjective popularity contest criteria. In “Lies, Sighs and...
by gregoryheller | Jun 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
Listening to Market Place last night, I heard a story about online privacy, and privacy in general. Seems that Privacy International issued a report recently that marks Google as the worst internet company when it comes to privacy. Stop the presses! As the Market Place story rightly points out, “It’s important to remember it’s not just Internet companies that hold the keys to our private lives. Just think about what businesses learn about you each time you buy something with a credit card or make a phone call.” Lisa Dinapoli (the reporter) was paraphrasing search engine expert Danny Sullivan who also said, “We don’t need solutions for Google. We need solutions for companies in general.” The story quoted Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, “There really can be some better business practices, some good legislation, some ways to get the benefits of new technology without sacrificing so much...
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